- •Предисловие
- •Методические пояснения к основным разделам учебного пособия
- •Introduction Meeting People, Greetings
- •Unit one
- •Part I Preliminary Exercises
- •Text a. Family Relations
- •Text b. Biography
- •Word Study
- •Grammar Study
- •Text Study
- •Part II
- •Text c. Families of the Past, Present and Future
- •Text d. The Japanese Family
- •Text e. The “Typical” American Family
- •Part III
- •Text f. About Myself
- •Dialogue 1
- •Dialogue 2
- •Dialogue 3
- •Dialogue 4
- •Unit two
- •Part I Preliminary Exercises
- •Words and word combinations to be remembered:
- •Text a. Life of a Student
- •Word Study
- •Grammar Study
- •Text Study
- •Part II
- •Text b. The University of Twente
- •Part III
- •Text d. Our University
- •Dialogue 1
- •Dialogue 2
- •Unit three
- •Part I Preliminary Exercises
- •Words to be remembered:
- •Text a. Technical Education
- •The University of Houston
- •Word Study
- •Grammar Study
- •Text Study
- •Part II
- •Text b. Computer Science at University
- •Text c. Course Structure at the Department of Mathematics
- •Part III
- •Unit four
- •Part I Preliminary Exercises
- •Text a. European Degree Scheme
- •Word Study
- •Grammar Study
- •Text Study
- •Part II
- •Text b. Students’ Union Society
- •Athletic Union
- •Text c. United Oxford and Cambridge University Club
- •Part III
- •Dialogue: Student Housing
- •Unit five
- •Part I Preliminary Exercises
- •Text a. Science
- •Word Study
- •Grammar Study
- •Text Study
- •Part II
- •Text b. Scientific Problems
- •Word Study
- •Text Study Exercise 1. Which of the following choices: a), b), c) most
- •Text c. Scientific Translator
- •Text d. The Discovery of Australia
- •Part III
- •Text e.
- •Unit six
- •Part I Preliminary Exercises
- •Words to be remembered:
- •Text a. Scientific Contributions to Technology
- •Word Study
- •Improve
- •Grammar Study
- •Text Study
- •Part II
- •Text b. Henry Ford and the Triumph of the automobile
- •Word Study
- •Text Study
- •Text c. Inventors and their Inventions
- •Part III
- •Text d. Edison
- •The table
- •Ten Wonders of the Modern World
- •Active Voice
- •List of Connectives
- •Contents
- •Introduction 5 Topic: Meeting People, Greetings
Part III
Words which may be helpful:
genius (n) – гений
inspiration (n) – вдохновение
perspiration (n) – noт, испарина
encourage (v) – подбодрять, вдохновлять
rate (v) – считать; расценивать; рассматривать
ancestor (n) – предок
share (v) – разделять (мнение, вкусы)
up-to-date (adj.) – современный
equation (n) – уравнение
estimate (n) – оценка
magnify (v) – увеличивать
matter (n) – вещество
transmit (v) – передавать
bulky (adj.) – большой; громоздкий
bill (n) – счёт
aid (v) – помогать
heredity (n) – наследственность
erase (v) – уничтожать
evil (n) – зло
tried (adj.) – испытанный
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Exercise 1. A. The paragraphs of text D are mixed up. Put them into the right logical order and read the text.
Text d. Edison
1. All his inventions were the result of hard work. He sometimes made thousands of experiments. According to his words the idea that a genius works only by inspiration was absurd. “Genius is 2 per cent inspiration and 98 per cent perspiration,” he often said.
2. It is no use asking us a big price,” said one of the businessmen, “we have already decided how much we will pay. Forty thousand dollars is our limit.”
With this money Edison established a workshop and began his career as a professional inventor at the age of twenty-two.
3. Edison did not have any education. He went to school only for three months. Then he left it because the teacher considered him a dull boy. His mother became his teacher. The boy loved books and his mother said that he had a wonderful memory. When he first visited a public library and saw a lot of shelves with books he decided that he would read all the books and then he would know everything in the world. He measured the shelf and decided to read a foot of books every week.
4. In 1868 Edison built his first patented invention – an electromagnetic device.
It is told that he planned to ask three thousand dollars for his invention, though he secretly decided he would sell it for two thousand if necessary. He was invited to a meeting of businessmen who were interested in buying his invention, but when he was asked to name the price he was very nervous and quite unable to speak.
5. Edison is known as one of the greatest inventors of his time. He invented so much that it is difficult to say which of his achievements is the greatest. He was an experimenter and a practical man more than a theoretician.
B. Say what you have learnt about:
the way Edison studied;
Edison’s attitude towards work
C. Discuss: What was Edison’s idea of a genius?
Do you agree with Edison’s opinion?
Why “yes”? Why “no”? Use the table” Agreements, disagreements” given below.
Agreements: |
Disagreements: |
I (quite) agree |
I can’t accept |
I think so too |
I don’t agree |
I agree to a point/in a way |
I disagree (there) |
Exactly |
I’m afraid I can’t agree |
Quite so |
Not at all |
I couldn’t agree more |
Nothing of the kind |
That’s just what I think |
I wouldn’t say that |
Exercise 2. Agree or disagree with the following statements. Give your arguments. Use conversational formulas from the table “Agreements. Disagreements”.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Man’s unique resource is his ability to think and create.
War may be a stimulus to invention.
The wheel is the basis of so many modern machines that it has been rated the most important invention ever made.
A nation that encourages change is more inventive than one that has high respect for the tested and tried ways of the ancestors
Exercise 3. Study the table “Inventions”.
Add some facts about Russian inventors.
Choose one invention and make a short report. Present information on:
the name of the person it was designed by;
the country this invention was made in;
what this thing was made for;
how it is used now;
how it influenced our life;
how it may be developed further
Hold a mini-conference “Inventors and their Inventions”.